Davis, David

(1815-1886), jurist, graduated at Kenyon College in Ohio, and settled to the practice of law at Blooming ton, Ill. He was a member of the Illinois Legislature, a State judge, and an intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1860. President Lincoln appointed him an A ociate Justice of the Supreme Court, where he remained from 1862 to 1877, being in the latter year a member of the Electoral Commi ion. His reform tendencies had, meanwhile, made him the candidate for President, in 1872, of the Labor Reform party, and brought him some votes at the Liberal Republican Convention in the same year. In 1877-. 1883 he was U. S. Senator from Illinois, and at one time president of the Senate. While in that body he was cla ed as an Independent, though he acted frequently with the Democrats. 207